The Road

In this post-apocalyptic novel, a father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other. This book boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. It is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.--From publisher description.

Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2007.
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007.
Winner of Quill Awards: General Fiction 2007.
Shortlisted for RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008.

Year	Award	Category	Status
2007	Locus Poll Award	Best SF Novel	Nominee/Finalist
2007	Quill Award	General Fiction	Winner
2012	Locus Online	21st Century Science Fiction Novel	Nominee/Finalist